syria. consequences after israel launches a bombing raid on a target near damascus. i took a strong stance and a very public. trouble expose america's torture program and got thirty months behind bars for doing a decorated veteran who turned against the agency. of his predicament.

committed by troops reports on civilian casualties remain hard to obtain. troops. british prime minister david cameron defies warnings of an imminent threat to u.k. . libya. to help train the country's security forces. twenty four hours a day you're watching. now syria has threatened to take action against israel has a fighter jets allegedly violated syria's space and bomb. the military research

complex close to damascus while the u.s. says warned syria not to transfer weapons to lebanon's militant group hezbollah that says american officials earlier claim that israeli jets bombed the weapons convoy inside syria meanwhile the first video footage apparently showing israeli planes bombing the research facility has appeared on the internet it was uploaded to the web by activists who are thought to be from the districts close to the target and shows bright flashes in the night sky. has the details now from tel aviv . now we are hearing from syria that israel did not want a military strike inside that country israel has not commented neither confirming nor denying these reports the syrian ambassador to lebanon did say that it was not clear when ever tell you what happened and that it was up to the powers that be to decide on such decisive action but he did say that it was an option and that it was and would be a surprise now the iranian diplomat foreign minister has also said that this israeli attack has serious implications for the israeli city of tel aviv and those

are indeed quite harsh warnings what we understand from syria from syria and sources is that the israelis hit a research center not far from the capital city of damascus and that at least two on five workers were killed there are also reports that the strike hit a convoy of weapons that was making its way from syria to lebanon now washington reportedly was warned by israel obvious intention to strike inside syria this kind of comment coming from a high ranking american official who has spoken on condition that he not be named it is important to mention that a couple of months ago iran's revolutionary guard did say that assad had friends in the region who had not yet entered the fray the quote was that these planes were poised to strike out in case there was an intervention in syria earlier this month . it's all deployed it's i'm doing the same from the soft the system to its border

with syria nectars of a growing concern that they could be some kind of use of chemical weapons as i mentioned earlier we have no comment yet from television also see no comment from washington moscow has said if indeed these reports are accurate that the israelis did strike inside syrian territory it is a gross violation of the united nations charter the arab league for its side has slammed israel for these alleged strikes saying that they are a flagrant act of aggression and a glaring violation of syria's sovereignty. well they are to decide one hundred marandi in the rain in the academic and political analyst he says that israel should be concerned about iran's possible answer to the strike in syria and iran and say the israelis are going to face serious consequences iranians have many means to her israelis to punish the israelis it doesn't necessarily mean that they

have to be involved directly they could. support. countries or bodies that could could make life for israelis more difficult of course he ran the world the syrian sovereignty and i think that the americans and the israelis should take this seriously because the iranians through soft power and other means have made life very difficult for american americans and their allies in the region over the past decade as we saw in iraq and afghanistan and in lebanon. while israel has taken a step closer to confrontation its border with syria continues to receive harsh criticism over its settlement activity. pressure u.n. says it's violating palestinian human rights un human rights council says israel must move all of its a half a million settlers from the occupied territories nice to see them in the west bank details just ahead. a decorated cia veteran

turned torture whistleblower and agency outcast is now awaiting a summons to start a prison sentence john kiriakou was one of the first to confirm the existence of washington's controversial waterboarding program that's been sent to jail for two and a half years for revealing the name of an undercover agent we're talking with r.t. himself said his true crime was speaking out against the government. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but

once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on american citizens and intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime they have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is

a very dangerous development. well lively and heated session in the u.s. senate as president obama's secretary defense nominee makes a u.-turn saying that possible military action against iran is on the table still ahead. lotty has gained exclusive footage of what's believed to be atrocities committed by the mali an army a town liberated from islamist rebels with the help of french forces but information on civilian casualties in mali has been known to be scarce he spoke to local journalist gonzalo one chap who told us of the origins of a disturbing tape as we continue moving north we find reports of extrajudicial killings and evidence of crimes we have heard of the murder of a few citizens by mali and soldiers in the town of silver not only did they kill them they shove their bodies into the drinking water well ok to be in the center of the town making the rest of the population watch we're also hearing of cases where

people are being prosecuted for trying to earn a living under the rule of militants sixteen year old adama says he was unknowingly employed as a cook and butler by jihadists who is now being accused of terrorism. after i started working as a cook in the town of do when i went to survey where there i met an old man and i asked him for a drink of water he said that he won't share water with terrorists i said that i was in a terrorist and i was just thirsty and then i was put into prison i am no terrorist i didn't even know that i was working with militants i only realized that through the rumors i started hearing and then when everyone went on to the frontline i was just cooking include for them no one even talked to me i think persecution also reportedly becoming widespread in the area arabs until they said to be persecuted on charges of allegedly collaborating with the militants you know the government and the french troops are fighting against our contacts in timbuktu also told us

that shops belonging to arabs are being looted. and there are also fears of sectarian revenge attacks in mali following the french led military campaign more on this as well as images from the conflict torn country are available on r.t. dot com. now throwing his own government's warnings to the wind british prime minister david cameron has touched down in tripoli for a surprise visit he promised to stand by libya as it rebuilds even his own foreign office won't britons of a growing threat to its embassies there artie's reform has more now on what the pm hopes to achieve. did arrive initially made very tight security and then he stressed that he wanted britain to try and beef up security in libya and try and help it improve its own economy there's no doubting that things have deteriorated in this country since twenty eleven when mr cameron last made his visit here just after the overthrow of colonel gadhafi the new libyan government is struggling with a lack of resources is also struggling to its authority over militias and on top of

this recently the british government admitted that there was a threat to its own embassy in tripoli and that it had advised british nationals to leave benghazi because of security concerns so mr cameron is well aware that there are problems and no doubt he will be talking about these when he meets with the libyan prime minister and the president during the rest of his visit but there was one telling moment today because apart from all this he did make a fifteen minute walk about around martin square which was at the center of the revolution and he did come in from algeria today in his visit to our g. of a similar purpose really he was trying to show that britain has support for this country and he also made reference to algeria today and also talked about the terrorist attack at the gas plant there which saw which saw thirty seven foreigners killed he mentioned that that was a reminder that what happens in other countries affects us at home too so i suppose putting it simply he's trying to show that britain still cares about these two

countries mr cameron does have his critics though there are those that claim that really what he's trying to do is protect britain's own interests after all libya and syria are among the top five producing all countries in africa were earlier my colleagues are buying what. queenie the chair of conservative think tank the boat group who insisted that david cameron's visit to the view is a move to support democracy in the country. i think the reason for his visit there is is to show the support that britain and the u.k. government wants to give northern african countries that that wish to tradition to democracy although not necessarily in military terms there are other ways we can give support libya algeria in that top five advocate of oil producers together pumping out eighty five percent of the continent's black gold do you maintain that britain's interests in them has nothing to do with that i mean we are rich in this facing some economic tough times right now so are we moving back to north africa

for that no certainly not british petroleum and other oil companies had interests in libya before. the colonel gadhafi but now that they own genes that hasn't changed is it easier for your government to go back and say well we've helped in the region changes so now we can come in and start talking about how we can work together again because that's how we looks like from now actually the elsa sitting . well while i don't think it does look like that because actually it's more difficult it's more difficult to do business in libya after the revolt but. i think the important point is that whilst tony blair felt that he could deal with colonel gadhafi david cameron didn't feel that the united kingdom could acceptably go on dealing with a sponsor of terrorism terrorism very ambiguous term these days isn't it some syrian rebels are terrorists yet the west backs their cause where do we draw the line well al-qaeda is clearly a terrorist organization that is and the rev i think it's

a way of never made those comments he was he was referring specifically to. or made those comments in light of what happened in algeria and that makes the point very clearly that british lives were lost in algeria. so there's not only threats to lives abroad but there's also a threat to lives at home because where al-qaeda training centers have been subdued in afghanistan they've now moved to northern africa. when you. break. the mold of. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. sometimes you see

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points national news for you now here on out. president obama's nominee for the country's next defense secretary has gone out of his way to persuade the senate he's fully committed to preventing iran from developing nuclear weapons and the confirmation hearing that chuck hagel is positions on the majority of the issues were in choosing with the white house's course. has been that this thing to the session which turned into deflection rather than defense. chuck hagel tried so hard to get the job you could see from the line of questioning that he was subjected to that the congress would never confirm him for the job unless he swore to defend all of washington's as one of the senators put it core foreign policy beliefs and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge those core foreign policy beliefs it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous statements on is well and it won there was so much mentioning of israel that at some point you thought they were confirming him

as defense secretary for is world and here is an example of how chuck hagel had to walk back on some of his previous statements at one time he said and this has become a famous quote the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel and of quote and here chuck hagel during the confirmation hearing be noted that i. did i should have used another term and i'm sorry and i regret i mean do your use of intimidation. i should have used influence. i think would have been more appropriate i should not have said dumb or stupid. because i understand appreciate there are different views in these things to those who believed mr haider was in favor of direct negotiations with iran as he claimed he was he

offered a correction a very vague one he blurted as much as he could take a listen i don't have a problem with engaging i think great powers engage engagement is clearly in our interest that's not negotiation engagement is not appeasement engagements not sure under one of the senators pointed out during the hearing that in a private conversation senator hagel told him that he thought sanctions didn't work and previously talking. again thanks for this but today's talk eagle says when he was against sections those were different times because we've got a different situation unilateral sanctions because we've already got strong international searches should be considered you i think the president right to consider those i would support that and of course he had to repeat several times that all options are on the table including a strike on iran an option that he previously called it was sponsible he of course went on to japan defend the administration's pivot to asia and all other policies

and that's not much of a surprise because a defense secretary supposed to carry out the president's policies that's his job but to those who thought that chuck hagel was going to offer a new outlook on u.s. foreign policy that definitely didn't happen during this hearing and the main accusation brought up again chuck hagel was that quote he is out of the mainstream yet senators used the word mainstream a number of times during the hearing and chuck hagel had to bend backwards to show that mainstream is where he belongs the u.n. human rights council has released a report saying israel must move all settlers out of palestinian territories the paper says the settlements are violation of human rights destroying palestinians property and crops driving them off their land but israel has refused to cooperate with the investigation calling the report biased and counterproductive to peace efforts and rights activist and blogger growing my own says television is eroding

its own credibility. israel has been complaining for many years that it's being singled out by various un organs. the human rights council one of the things it was formed to do was to have a more equitable process which had the same level of scrutiny for all you would members and although this report did single out israel it's boycott of the human rights council is comprehensive it refuse to participate in review process which every other un member tends anybody israel attended four years ago and that undermines not only israel's international position but the whole human rights process in general. food activists a plan to protest outside one some shareholder meeting in the us on thursday according on the thirteen point five billion it's all that cultural by a technology company to be more transparent while the companies accused of seed

contamination through genetic modification were joined. by. monsanto shareholder to learn more about this and the situation around the company thanks for joining us here on as you said you're a shareholder so presumably interested in the company making a profit but you're trying to speak on behalf of the company we submitted a study on potential risks of these products why are you doing that. well the resolution we had would have required a report to be written that could be shared with researchers and scientists across the globe about the risks that they know the company knows already about their genetically modified crops which many say food activists believe make us more reliant on herbicides and chemicals that the company also sells and these chemicals may be what's causing higher rates of cancer in industrialized nation nations across the globe we know that it causes tumors in rats that were fed and long term

food studies last year the doctors to really study was the topic during the shareholder meeting i brought it up provide as it will speak during the meeting and this meeting is closed to the public as you said and we one of the things that are asking for is in the future the speed live streamed you know people around the world care about what's going into the food they may not want to own months in a stock i only bought stocks like it's these shares were meeting. now we understand the chinese economist has criticised monsanto for controlling the country's soybean market and trying to do the same with corn and cotton in the country how is that impacting the whole follows perhaps. well it devastates local farmers time and time again we've seen and countries where months and has introduced patented technologies like to call it and they only provide hybrid seeds the virus who then lose biodiversity lose varieties that have actually adapted to that area what we

need on this planet is better distribution of food and we need better you know organic methods to be shared with farmers not more reliance on chemicals on pesticides and now as was quite alarming at the shareholder meeting there are these new are are they technologies where they're going to be modifying insects and viruses and introducing these novel viruses and into the environment to pedal to the hill paths to kill paths and we wonder why our be populations around the world are plummeting it's because of these chemicals and possibly because of this new technology. and in two thousand and nine monsanto was accused by the us justice department of breaking anti trust rules but in twenty twelve inquiry was close without taking any force with action one of that happened do you think. oh i

think monsanto is the perfect example of regulatory capture where an industry captures the levers of government levers of our democracy that are supposed to protect us from companies that would profit over our health being impacted and in a really negative way i mean we have people that may be allergic to these crops and there are the chemicals that are used preyed on them and they're trying to avoid them and in america they have no right to know if the food has been genetically modified or not and that is something that that i have brought up as well at that meeting is that the company should get behind efforts if you want to be transparent you want to label the food so yes you have people in the f.d.a. like michael taylor who is the head of food safety who also was a vice president monsanto for a decade and prior to that worked at the f.d.a. as well so it's a revolving door he was at the f.d.a. when it worked at once and now he's back the f.d.a. . it's clear that secretary clinton is in the last year and secretary of state

should be at the size getting these hybrid seeds into africa and there's no proof that this is really going to help african farmers i think quite to the contrary to going to become dependent on line by your seeds from the united states where they should be able to save their seed and develop their own varieties in africa ok well when they get that i think get a life from a senator send us a thank you appreciate you covering the story i think you are. well more news for you on dot com now craving for coal energy angry china as much carbon a year as a rest of the well combined with levels of pollution in the country increasing its online. presidential candidates has been seriously wounded since a nation of sixty four year old politician has been hospitalized for gun and shot

him twice this and other stories on our web site. more news in brief for you now in france tens of thousands of public sector workers took to the streets in a strike pay rises three years long. almost a million civil servants struggling at minimum wages and in greece workers have gone on a two day strike with hundreds on the streets protesting against austerity measures . fourteen year olds and the teacher have been shorter. in the u.s. city of atlanta a teenager has been taken to hospital i think say he's conscious and alert the suspect who's reportedly also a student at the school has been taken into custody as a second incident of gun violence in the past few days with a shooting in an arizona office leaving one to two others wounded we don't control debate is running high in the country after deadly consequence. twenty six lives in

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